4th January 2006, 01:34 PM
1man1desk,
I take your point about proactive enforcement needing greater resources. That has to be a priority for the IFA in achieving more respect from the rank and file (and more members). It would seem to be a cyclical system rather than a direct cause and effect. Surely better enforcement will lead to more respect and more members thus creating a virtuous cycle or whatever they are called. It needs to be kick started somehow, and I'm not sure that your (among others) valiant calls for people to join the IFA are enough.
I have been far more impressed with recent high profile RAO discipline cases. Not impressed to join the IFA yet mind, because it seems the IFA was pressured into it, but it's a start. I'm sure I'm not alone.
My comments on charities were not based on your comments, but musings on the nature of organizations.
Lastly,
I understand that the IFA cannot directly discipline me if I'm not a member, my comments were perhaps imprecise. Curator's and/or consultants can, as you say, if they have written them in to a WSI or contract. What difference does it make who does the disciplining as long as the standards are upheld? It may be an indirect power that the IFA has over me, but it is power nonetheless.
I take your point about proactive enforcement needing greater resources. That has to be a priority for the IFA in achieving more respect from the rank and file (and more members). It would seem to be a cyclical system rather than a direct cause and effect. Surely better enforcement will lead to more respect and more members thus creating a virtuous cycle or whatever they are called. It needs to be kick started somehow, and I'm not sure that your (among others) valiant calls for people to join the IFA are enough.
I have been far more impressed with recent high profile RAO discipline cases. Not impressed to join the IFA yet mind, because it seems the IFA was pressured into it, but it's a start. I'm sure I'm not alone.
My comments on charities were not based on your comments, but musings on the nature of organizations.
Lastly,
I understand that the IFA cannot directly discipline me if I'm not a member, my comments were perhaps imprecise. Curator's and/or consultants can, as you say, if they have written them in to a WSI or contract. What difference does it make who does the disciplining as long as the standards are upheld? It may be an indirect power that the IFA has over me, but it is power nonetheless.